Welfare research : a critical review
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Welfare research : a critical review
UCL Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-209) and index
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ISBN 9781857282696
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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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: pbk ISBN 9781857282702
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First published in 1998. This book attempts to contribute a new framework for social research in the welfare field. As such, it engages with new theories, new approaches and new methods, alongside a constructive critique of both the old and the new. It attempts to illustrate approaches to conceptualization and operationalization within policy-relevant research, to reflect and explore both "new" thinking in social theory and in welfare policy, as well as to maintain a connection with "old" concerns. Our concern is with welfare research-both theory and method- broadly defined as the wider landscape of policy and provision captured, in the past at least, by the notion of the "welfare state". The "new" thinking with which the book is primarily concerned involves a shift away from seeing people as the passive beneficiaries of "welfare" provided through state interventions and professional expertise and from seeing them as fixed single social categories of "poor", "old", "single parent" or as one dimensional, objective socio-economic classifications.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Context
- Chapter 1 Changing Paradigms of Welfare, Fiona Williams, Jennie Popay, Ann Oakley
- Part 2 Concepts
- Chapter 2 Exploring Links Between Old and New Paradigms: A Critical Review, Fiona Williams
- Chapter 3 Constructs from the New Paradigm: An Exploration of Diverse Meanings, Julie Seymour
- Part 3 Methods
- Chapter 4 Qualitative Methods and Welfare Research, Chas Critcher, David Waddington, Bella Dicks
- Chapter 5 Social Work and its Evaluation: A Methodological Dilemma?, Geraldine Macdonald
- Part 4 Social Relations of Welfare
- Chapter 6 Gender and Welfare Research, Jalna Hanmer, Jeff Hearn
- Chapter 7 Service Users' and Providers' Perspectives on Welfare Needs, Jeanette Edwards, Ann Oakley, Jennie Popay
- Part 5 The Future
- Chapter 8 Balancing Polarities: Developing a New Framework for Welfare Research, Fiona Williams, Jennie Popay
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